Extraordinary Performance and Responsiveness
With Intel’s latest power-efficient microarchitecture, advanced process technology, and silicon optimizations, the 8th Generation Intel® Core™ U-series processor is Intel’s fastest 15W processor3 with up to 40 percent greater productivity than 7th Gen processors and 2X more productivity vs. comparable 5-year-old processors.4
• Get fast and responsive web browsing with Intel® Speed Shift Technology.
• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 lets you work more productively by dynamically controlling the processor's frequency—across cores and graphics—boosting performance precisely when it is needed.
• With up to four cores, 8th Generation Intel Core U-series processor with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology)supports up to eight threads, making every day content creation a compelling experience on 2 in 1s and ultra-thin clamshells.
• For those on the go, PCs enabled with Microsoft Windows* Modern Standby wake instantly at the push of a button, so you don’t have to wait for your system tostart up.

Immersive EntertainmentImpressive built-in media capabilities enhance your editing and viewing experiences with 4K UHD video, 360° video, and premium content streaming, enabling new ways to enjoy and engage content across a range of form factors. Intel® UHD Graphics, integrated into these next-generation processors, deliver advanced, efficient performance for visual brilliance, so you can easily watch, create, edit, share, and game. Our media engine, with power-efficient VP9 and HEVC 10-bit hardware acceleration, means great battery life, even with 4K UHD viewing and content creation. You can root for your favorite sports team and stream movies and TV shows in rich, detailed 4K UHD from a burgeoning content ecosystem. Gamers can play their favorite games on the go in UHD with fluid, texture-rich graphics.

For an enhanced gaming experience, connecting to an external graphics dock via Thunderbolt™ 3 delivers spectacular gaming performance with one simple connection, even with a thin and light notebook. Enjoy the freedom—and the results.
8th Generation Intel® Core™ U-series processors will be Microsoft Mixed Reality-ready5—great for 360° photos and video, including discovering new HoloTour places.

Thunderbolt™ 3: The USB-C that Does it AllNotebooks with versatile Thunderbolt 3—the USB-C that does it all—provide incredible I/O performance. Declutter your desk with a single cable that conveniently supports up to 40 Gb/s transfer speeds, two 4K UHD 60 Hz displays, system charging up to 100W, external graphics, and Thunderbolt networking to bolster productivity and deliver amazing experiences on your PC.

8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Features at a Glance

Features

Benefits

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0

Dynamically increases the processor’s frequency, as needed, by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom when operating below specified limits.

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology)

Delivers two processing threads per physical core. Highly threaded applications can get more work done in parallel, completing tasks sooner.

Intel® UHD Graphics

Play 4K UHD videos with exceptional clarity, view, and edit even the smallest details of photos, and play today’s modern games.

A set of instructions that can be used to accelerate a variety of encryption apps, including whole disk encryption, file storage encryption, conditional access of 4K UHD content, Internet security, and VoIP. Consumers benefit from protected Internet and email content, plus fast, responsive disk encryption.

Intel® Power Optimization and Processor C-States

Intel® Power Optimization increases periods of silicon sleep state across the platform ingredients, including the processor, chipset, and third-party system components, to reduce power. Processor C-states (C8-C10) provide low idle power.

Configurable TDP Power

With Configurable TDP, the processor is now capable of modulating the maximum sustained power vs. performance. Configurable TDP thus provides design and performance flexibility to control system performance based on the cooling capability and usage scenarios. For example, a detachable Ultrabook™ may need more performance when used in a full clamshell mode (vs. tablet mode), or when balanced performance is needed in a quiet conference room setting.

Intel® Secure Key

Security hardware-based random number generator that can be used for generating high-quality keys for cryptographic (encryption and decryption) protocols. Provides quality entropy that is highly sought after in the cryptography world for added security.

Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2)

A set of 256-bit instructions to deliver enhanced performance on floating point- and integer-intensive apps. Includes instructions for FMA (Fused Multiply Add) which can deliver better performance on media and floating point computations, including face recognition, professional imaging, high-performance computing, consumer video and imaging, compression, and encryption.

Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC)

A technology based on the ACPI 5.0 specification that dynamically modulates performance vs. active application power. It reduces active power to deliver better battery life and allows deep low power states to be reached.

Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)

A collection of instructions, APIs, libraries, and tools to help protect select code and data from disclosure or modification through the use of enclaves, which are protected areas of execution in memory.

Intel® BIOS Guard

An augmentation of existing chipset-based BIOS flash protection capabilities targeted to address the increasing malware threat to BIOS flash storage. It helps protect the BIOS flash from modification without platform manufacturer authorization, helps defend the platform against low-level DOS (denial of service) attacks, and restores BIOS to a known good state after an attack.

A trusted element of the platform execution that provides enhanced security by verifying the boot portion of the boot sequence which helps protect against viruses and malicious software attacks.

Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST)

Offers excellent levels of performance, responsiveness, and expandability. Take advantage of the enhanced performance and lower power consumption available with Intel® RST with one or more SATA or PCIe storage drives. With additional SATA drives, Intel RST provides quicker access to digital photo, video, and data files with RAID 0, 5, and 10, and greater data protection against a storage disk drive failure with RAID 1, 5, and 10. Dynamic Storage Accelerator unleashes the incredible performance of Solid State Drives (SSD) when multitasking.

Intel® Speed Shift Technology

Delivers dramatically quicker responsiveness with single-threaded, transient (short duration) workloads, such as web browsing, by allowing the processor to more quickly select its best operating frequency and voltage for optimal performance and power efficiency.

Intel® High Definition Audio

Integrated audio support enables premium digital surround sound and delivers advanced features such as multiple audio streams and jack re-tasking.

Intel® Smart Sound Technology

A dedicated audio Digital Signal Processor designed to process audio for media playback and voice for PC interactions like Cortana*, Nuance Dragon*, or Skype*. Enables long battery life while providing new usages and maintaining high-end audio playback.

Universal Serial Bus 3.0

Integrated USB 3.0 support enhances performance with a design data rate of up to 5 Gb/s with up to 6 USB 3.0 ports.

Universal Serial Bus 2.0

Hi-Speed USB 2.0 support with a design data rate of up to 480 Mb/s with up to 10 USB 2.0 ports.

System Configurations: Battery life measurements on Intel Reference Platform unless otherwise noted (i.e., YouTube 4K Streaming). Intel Reference Platform is an example new system. Products available from systems manufacturers will not be identical in design, and performance will vary. System power management policy: DC balanced for battery life measurements, AC balanced for performance measurements on 3rd Generation system and AC High Performance on 8th and 7th Generation systems. Wireless: On and connected.